MLK CAMPUS-WIDE CELEBRATION

SCHEDULE OF EVENTSJANUARY 19, 2015

“WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY?”

MLK DAY CELEBRATION 2015

Schedule of Events8:30am

Community Breakfast [Emerson Suites]

9:00amMorning Adress by Dr. Derek Adams on

“Whose Dream Is It Anyways” [Emerson Suites]

10:00amEducational Sessions [Campus Center]

11:30am City of Ithaca Community Celebration[Beverly J Martin Elementary School]*

12:00pmGrab ‘n’ Go Lunchtime Film

Emmy Award Winning “All That Remains” by Crystal Kayiza ‘15 [Textor 102]

2:00pmEducational Sessions [Campus Center]

4:00pmMLK Celebration Event [Emerson Suites]

7:30pmSchool of Music Concert [Ford Hall, Whalen

Center]

Saturday, January 24MLK Day of Service [9:00am-4:00pm]**

*Transportation will not be provided**Please pre-register at ithaca.edu/osema as spots are limited and

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9:00AM - “WHOSE DREAM IS IT ANYWAY”

Dr. Derek AdamsAssistant Professor, Department of EnglishSpeciality: African American Literature

10:00AM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

Clark Lounge BEYOND DREAMING: AND WHAT IF BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER? Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Predoctoral Diversity Fellow, Writing

Taughannock FROM MOVEMENTS TO MONUMENTS: HOW Falls Room DESIGN CREATES STRUCTURES OF CHANGE Aaron Lipford, ‘2015 MLK Scholar,Biochemistry

Klingenstein MEET ME AT EQUALITY: THE Lounge PEOPLE’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON Dr. James Rada Professor of Journalism

11:30AM - CITY OF ITHACA COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

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“POWER” BY AUDREY LORDE“The difference between poetry and rhetoricis being ready to killyourselfinstead of your children.

I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot woundsand a dead child dragging his shattered blackface off the edge of my sleepblood from his punctured cheeks and shouldersis the only liquid for milesand my stomachchurns at the imagined taste whilemy mouth splits into dry lipswithout loyalty or reasonthirsting for the wetness of his bloodas it sinks into the whitenessof the desert where I am lostwithout imagery or magictrying to make power out of hatred and destructiontrying to heal my dying son with kissesonly the sun will bleach his bones quicker.

A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queensstood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish bloodand a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” andthere are tapes to prove it. At his trialthis policeman said in his own defense“I didn’t notice the size nor nothing elseonly the color”. Andthere are tapes to prove that, too.

Today that 37 year old white manwith 13 years of police forcingwas set freeby eleven white men who said they were satisfiedjustice had been doneand one Black Woman who said“They convinced me” meaningthey had dragged her 4’10’’ black Woman’s frameover the hot coalsof four centuries of white male approvaluntil she let gothe first real power she ever hadand lined her own womb with cementto make a graveyard for our children.

I have not been able to touch the destructionwithin me.But unless I learn to usethe difference between poetry and rhetoricmy power too will run corrupt as poisonous moldor lie limp and useless as an unconnected wireand one day I will take my teenaged plugand connect it to the nearest socketraping an 85 year old white womanwho is somebody’s motherand as I beat her senseless and set a torch to her beda greek chorus will be singing in 3/4 time“Poor thing. She never hurt a soul. What beasts they are.”

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12:00PM - GRAB ‘N’ GO LUNCHTIME FILM

Emmy Award Winning “All That Remains” By Crystal Kayiza ‘15

2:00PM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

Clark Lounge WHERE DO WE START? RACIAL PROFILING AND CHANGE(D) RELATIONS ON CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY Moderated by Dr. Jonathan Ablard History

Taughannock EXPLORING PRIVILEGE AND Falls Room OPPRESSION The Diversity Peer Educators Klingenstein STOP THE NEW JIM CROW: WHY LOUNGE CHALLENGING MASS INCARCERATION IS CRUCIAL TO PURSUING MLK’S DREAM Dr. Paula Ioanide Center for Race, Culture and Ethnicity

Ithaca Falls CREATING INCLUSIVITY AT EVENTS ON IC’S CAMPUS The Student Organization Specialist Team: Lia Munoz, Alexander Cammy, Annie Yuen, and Emily Quinn 4

4:00PM - MLK CELEBRATION EVENT

MASTER OF CEREMONIESMr. John Rawlins III

Special Assistant to the Associate Vice Provost/Dean of Student Life at

Johns Hopkins University

“LIFT EVERT VOICE AND SING!”Black National Anthem

Written By James Weldon JohnsonPerformed By Josh DufourSecond-Year MLK Scholar

CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR PRESENTATIONFirst-Year MLK Scholar Program

*See Agenda On Page 6*

INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERJohn W. Rawlins III

KEYNOTE SPEAKERAsh Beckham

LGBTQ Advocate and TedTalk Speaker

CLOSING REMARKSJohn W. Rawlins III

7:30PM - SCHOOL OF MUSIC ANNUAL MLK CELEBRATION CONCERT

“THE DREAM NEVER DIES”[Ford Hall, Whalen Center]

This Concert will feature students, faculty and the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers. A special ensemble of MLK scholars and students from the school of music will debut the Keepers of the Dream Ensemble. A ensemble

formed to continue the legacy of Dr. King through music with a social justice message.

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ORDER OF EVENTSDESCRIPTIVE WORDS -- Steph, Maya, Monique, Kiaira, Nicole, Matthew, Violet

INTRODUCTION -- Carter

INTRODUCTION TO MARTYRS -- Nicole

EMMETT TILL -- Kiaira, Matthew, Carter

VIOLA LIUZZO -- Monica, Nicole

CAROLYN MCKINSTRY, REVEREND WILLIAMS, JOANNE BLAND-- Stephanie, Monique, Jonathan, Chanel

MARCH ON WASHINGTON -- Mieshon

HYMNS -- Marieme, Violet, Elizabeth, Stephanie, Tyler

Sit Ins -- Tyler, Marieme, Violet, Stephanie, Maya, Matthew, Carter, Angela, Larissa

“THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US” -- Marieme, Stephanie, Violet, Maya, Nicole, Chanel, Kiaira

POEM -- Elizabeth

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS -- Gabriella

RACE CRIMES -- Kiaira, Matthew, Carter

HATE GROUPS -- Jonathan

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS -- Monica, Elizabeth

LGBTQIA DISCRIMINATION -- Nicole, Maya, Gabriella, Violet, Stephanie

WOMEN’S RIGHTS -- Angela, Marlena, Larissa

PRISON SYSTEM -- Carter, Christian

“WHAT CAN WE DO?” -- Tyler

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FIRST-YEAR MLK SCHOLARS’ CIVIL RIGHTS PRESENTATION

SCHOLARS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT(TOP TO BOTTOM): Marieme Foote, Jonathan Couce, Matthew McClain, Carter

Jackson, Christian Conyers,Marlena Candelario Romero, Angela Pradhan, Tyler

Reighn, Violet Perry, Monica Chen, Larissa Jimenez, Meishon Walker, Monique Crosby,

Chanel Underwood, Maya Howard, Elizabeth Charles, Gabriella LoBue,

Kiaira Anglero, Stephanie Cruz, Nicole Bond

Day 3• Civil Rights Memorial and

Center • Dexter Avenue King Memorial

Baptist Church • Rosa Parks Museum • Viola Luizzo Grave Marker

Day 4• MLK National Historic District • MLK Birth Home • National Center for Civil &

Human Rights

Day 5• Return to Ithaca College

Day 1• Arrive at Atlanta, Georgia

Day 2• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute • Carolyn McKinstry - Foot

Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

• Joanne Bland - Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

• Crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge

2014 CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR

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SPECIAL THANKS TO: DR. ROGER RICHARDSON, Associate Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs/Dean of the First-Year Experience

MS. MALINDA B. SMITH, Director for Multicultural Affairs and Coordinator of the Martin Luther King Scholar Program

DR. CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies

DR. TANYA SAUNDERS, Assistant Provost, International Studies and Special Projects

DR. SEAN EVERSLEY-BRADWELL, Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity

DR. BELISA GONZALEZ, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

NICOLE EVERSLEY-BRADWELL, Senior Associate Director, Off Campus and International Recruitment, Admission

DR. TOM ROCHON, President of Ithaca College

KATIE HELLMAN, HOME and Honors Residential LearningCommunities Residence Director

MR. ROGER PENNYMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR GUIDE JOANNE BLAND, REVEREND WILLIAMS & CAROLYN MCKINSTRY

FOOT SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

MLK SCHOLAR PROGRAM FACULTY & STAFF, HOME PROGRAM, AND ITHACA COLLEGE

REMEMBER TO STAY INFORMED AND BE MINDFUL OF INJUSTICE!

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